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UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD B. AIGUIER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE RICHARDSONMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

LINK-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 551,568, dated December17, 1895.

Application filed August 23, 1895. Serial No. 560,256. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD B. AIGUIER, of Newark, in the county of Essexand State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Link-Button,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improvedlink-button, arranged for convenient attachment to a cuff, and adaptedto hold the buttons in proper position relative to the adjacent ends ofthe cuff.

The invention consists principally of two buttons and a connecting-linkfor pivotally connecting the said buttons with each other, the pivotsbeing arranged obliquely to one another to hold the buttons in a likeposition.

The invention also consists of certain parts and details andcombinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter andthen pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1' is a perspective view of the improvement as applied. Fig. 2 isa sectional side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a front elevation ofthe improvement, and Fig. 4 is a plan View of the same.

The improved link-button is provided with two buttons A and A, pivotallyconnected B and 13 arranged obliquely to one another, so that the twobuttons A and A stand obliquely one to the other when used on a cufi, asindicated in Figs. 1 and 2.

It will be seen that by the arrangement described the link and buttonscan be folded to stand parallel one to the other, as indicated in Figs.3 and 4, so that the buttons can be readily passed through thebuttonholes in a cufi when attaching the link-buttons to the same.

It will further be seen by reference to the drawings that the pivotalconnection of the link and buttons is at the center of the latter, andneither of the buttons is rigid on the link, and both pivots arearranged as previously described, so that the buttons readily fit uponthe angular surface of the cuff when applied.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent In a link button, two button sections, and alink, the same having diagonal portions respectively hinged to thebutton sections whereby the button sections are placed diagv onally toeach other, substantially as described.

EDWARD B. AIGUIER. Witnesses:

GOTTLIEB MiiLLER, WILLIAM E. BLADONA with each other by a link B, havingthe pivots

